At some point you wonder not just if insiders using information to place bets, but maybe also reshaping their advice to make those bets profitable.

A list of news outlets and social media sites whose billionaire owners, investors or parent companies also have U.S. government defense contracts: Axios CBS NBC The Washington Post TikTok YouTube X Soon: CNN

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

The spiked James Talarico interview CBS corporate doesn’t want Americans to see. youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A

Wow.

I talked to @aljazeera.com about the FCC. What a time to be finishing a book about media billionaires. www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026...

Breaking — Will Lewis out at the Washington Post. He just sent this email to staff (shared with me by staffer):

2026…so far.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The morning after mass layoffs, The Washington Post publishes this as their lead editorial. The owner and publisher clearly have no idea why they are losing subscribers. Meanwhile they have destroyed a storied brand. Support independent media. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

Washington Post laid off its reporter covering Amazon. From @columjournreview.bsky.social

Framing Washington Post layoffs as anything other than a billionaire owner killing journalism to curry favor with the government he does business with is journalistic malpractice. You think the guy who owns Amazon hasn’t figured out digital?

Democracy dies in the bright light of billionaire ownership.

I mean, it's a really weird time to have written a book about all of this but also feel like you just scratched the surface of the terribleness.

In a crushing blow to the Ellisons and Bari Weiss, Kid Rock's alternative Super Bowl halftime show will air on Rumble and OAN, not CBS.

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

W.H.A.T. A. B.U.R.N.! The city of Minneapolis and its residents were formally nominated for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.

Important reporting from Minnesota Public Radio which was impacted by Trump’s funding cuts last year. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

This is America

If this is the same Peter Attia MD who was just revealed as one of Bari Weiss's big new additions to CBS News, he can just tell the stories about the "outrageous" life Jeffrey Epstein led on the Evening News. Think of the ratings!

here is the video version of this post, with a few other thoughts as well. youtu.be/wBS13rx-M7s

Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.

Don’t look away. Don’t be cynical. The president of the United States is a serial child rapist, according to files posted and then hastily removed by his own DoJ.

Yes authoritarians hate a free press. But these regimes also are filled with billionaire oligarchs who usurp or abandon journalism in exchange for favorable govt treatment to boost their own power.

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Bari Weiss isn’t the first out-of-touch exec to urge news staffers to quit. A Sam Zell private equity boss in a 2007 memo said “print will prosper” and urged unhappy staffers interested in digital to exit Tribune.

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Minneapolis Live Updates: Videos Appear to Contradict Federal Account of Killing www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us...

Reminder: The Minnesota @startribune.com is providing real-time, non-paywalled coverage of the latest ICE shooting death on its live blog at www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Rupert Murdoch’s right-wing media machine already framing the shooting as a threat to ICE agents

“We’re horrified and appalled by the killing of three journalists today in Gaza. This is the latest in a pattern of targeted attacks by Israel on Palestinian journalists,” said CPJ CEO Jodie Ginsberg on Jan. 21. Watch on Middle East Eye ⤵️

And journalists will still treat this killing like it’s just another side of the story.

Bravo @npr.org reporting exactly what this political moment is: America’s authoritarian turn. www.npr.org/2026/01/23/g...

ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."

Independent nonprofit news like The Florida Bulldog matters now more than ever. @inn.org

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

Imagine if protesting was not actually a bank robbery, and that journalism was not a crime. Imagine if the people who were weaponizing the justice system to attack Trump's enemies took the constitution seriously rather than cooking their brains all day on social media.

An FBI agent conducted an initial review of the Renee Good killing and determined sufficient grounds existed to open a civil rights probe into the actions of the ICE officer who shot her. Justice Department says no inquiry is warranted. @perrystein.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

So many headlines are not aging well.

Fixed it for you, New York Times.

“I sit on a man's back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible” —Leo Tolstoy

nepobaby CBS CEO David Ellison "accidentally" named his 288-foot yacht "I'm a Nazi" in reverse

Trump sensing Republicans will lose the midterms tells Reuters “we shouldn't even have an election” and it doesn’t even make the headline. www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...

🔥 From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social : “This is nuts. What the fuck is going on? I’ve never protested in my life… they tell you it’s immigrants — it’s fucking anybody. They’re just trying to scare people. I’m not paid to be here. I have to work in the morning. This is wrong.”

Au pair testifying against her former employer and lover accused of killing his wife is getting her prison expenses paid by news producers in exchange for her story.

Sen. Mullin on Renee Good killing investigation: “If they’re investigating anything, they need to be investigating the paid protesters.”

Citizens speaking truth to authoritarian overreach do not have equal responsibility nor power to the government agency that kills them. Readers and viewers are paying attention to this kind of feckless journalism.

Nikki Glaser roasting CBS on CBS is iconic #GoldenGlobes